Why do people say "America offers you more freedom than any other country on Earth"?

Question

Wouldn't that be the Netherlands?

Answer 1

Most people in this country are so sheltered and clueless they actually have no idea how people in other countries live.

But since we're indoctrinated since around preschool to worship how "free" we are (though I haven't really seen many free black and otherwise colored people in America's history), we mostly repeat it unquestioningly and uncritically to make ourselves feel better and maintain some sense of superiority.

Answer 2

Living in the past is probably the main reason you will still here that. In fact our freedoms are being taken away at an alarming rate and our media is not covering it. The media used to give us more info, the government didnt have the control over media the way it does now after the patriot act.In response to another answer you cannot say anything you want.Many words now could land you in prison, If you were to say "bomb " in public even if it were in a conversation with another and was overheard it could be reported, you would be arrested immediately and under the patriot act and depending on their discretion could hold you indefinably with no court no lawyer no trial. Thousand of innocent protesters at the republican convention in new york couple years ago were held, no calls, in a abandon warehouse that was deemed condemned for the cancer causing contaminants in the building for three days. Just for protesting the war in Iraq that isn't freedom of speech.

Answer 3

America has not been truly free in a long time! The constitution is attacked daily, though I noticed the Military Commisions Act of 2006 is starting to wilt under the courts scrutiny. It is Unconstitutional! The government has already lost a case that they have been holding a US citizen for 3 1/2 years with no charges!

Court rules in favor of enemy combatant By ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON, Associated Press
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RICHMOND, Va. - The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.

"To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them 'enemy' combatants,' would have disastrous consequences for the constitution — and the country," the court panel said.

In the 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that the federal Military Commissions Act doesn't strip Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S.resident, of his constitutional rights to challenge his accusers in court.
It ruled the government must allow al-Marri to be released from military detention.
He is currently the only U.S. resident held as an enemy combatant within theU.S.

Jose Padilla, another U.S. citizen, was held as an enemy combatant in a Navy brig for 3 1/2 years

Answer 4

They are referring to economic freedom. 'Freedom' in the terms meant by those who wake up in the morning as ask 'who can I screw today?' Or, 'how can I use my unlimited financial resources to overcome ALL my responsibilities to the wider society from which they came?'

Freedom from hunger, oppression, fear and want, and the right to participate politically, are minor freedoms to the millionaires who manufacture nationalist myths.

Having said that, America has many most excellent freedoms, it's just they don't recognise their strengths. For instance that 'mall' now patrolled by security guards was once public space. It's amusing that Americans see any effort to turn a man with a billion dollars into a pauper with only $980 million as vicious oppression, or any attempt to take away machine guns as dictatorship, but in America people starve to death on the street and die because they can't afford hospital treatment. Most other countries don't have to destroy the poor so thoroughly to enable the top of society to live in complete comfort.

Answer 5

England is a constitutonal monarchy, universal in 1215, even as barons in England sought to regulate King John's ability. This has been amended by ability of time. the united states's statement of Ihdependence and structure universal legal freedoms for us, and the progressive conflict gave us freedom fron English rule. that's our delight in being a loose u . s ..

Answer 6

because most people are stuck in the mind set that America is the absolute best place to live and most free, when really a lot of Europe has more freedoms then America. everyone here thinks to highly of the psuedo-successful economy and false freedoms

Answer 7

No. America is by far the best country. You can speak freely, go to mall, etc.. But we are turning a little socialist and people are afraid to do anything and get persecuted for something. Believe me, my dad has been all over the world in the marines and he knows. Bush needs to get his act together and stop these groups who are so worried about "offending" people. Like arresting kids who bring asprin to school or charging marines with war crimes because they did their job and fought the war in iraq. They are being shot at, clear a house, and fight the enemy. But the enemy puts a little child in there becauswe they know that the marines will get charged. Rubbish. The netherlands sounds cool, but you will not find any country better than good ol USA!

Answer 8

Plenty of answers for you, tilly dear.
1. People are uninformed.
2. They believe too much in government.
3. They're trying to tell the truth, but aren't allowed to.
4. They're trying to draw attention away from the fact that America's currently going down the crapper. Government schools, deadly vaccinations, suicides...sigh.

It probably would be the Netherlands, though Switzerland isn't too bad either.

Answer 9

America offers you an astonishing amount of freedom.
Especially if you have a comfortable amount of money.

Answer 10

I'm an American, but you are right with that. Instead of saying it, why not put our money where our mouth is and let me smoke a friggin joint in a coffee shop. If we had that freedom, there would sure be alot less violence and desire to start stupid wars over fantasy weapons of mass destruction, or was it liberating the iraq...or was it catching Saddam, wait we found him..., wait..what was it again?